Point South Mexico - Real Estate and Lifestyle Magazine

I was sitting in the Coffee Tree in Chapala, eavesdropping on the "Six Sages" who help keep me up-to-date on local doings. (I almost wrote "abreast of" but didn't want to take a chance of offending those people who are removing books from the L.C.S library. A breast does have some erotic connotations.) There wasn't much going on, just complaints about the lack of rain and the condition of the Lake. But just as I was about to leave, a well-dressed oriental looking man approached the group. He bowed slightly,

No one really knows for sure when he came to the pueblo, but most folk think he came from Italy. Some say that he inherited a certain wealth from his family and simply chose to enjoy it in his adopted hometown. Others, who tend toward negative gossip, say he was a Mafioso and was hiding from the executioner. Strangely, no matter which faction tells the story, his life in the pueblo is painted with the same admiring brush.